There is too much effort going into software licensing. Copyright is not part of the meta, information wants to be free; it will always be possible to copy code

There is too much effort going into software licensing. Copyright is not part of the meta, information wants to be free; it will always be possible to copy code and run it, and difficult to prove that a remote machine is executing any particular program. It will get easier to decompile code as AI improves, so even the source code distribution stuff will become a moot point. Licenses have been useful in the narrow niche of extracting software engineering labor from large corporations, mostly in the US. The GPL has done the best job of that, as it has a whole organization dedicated to giving it teeth. Entities outside the US, and especially outside of the West, are less vulnerable to this sort of lawfare.